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Person · 1781 - 24 October 1867

Born in London the son of John and Susannah of Wardour Street, London

Admitted as a pensioner to Clare College on 13 June 1799
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1799
B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. 1818

Ordained deacon 1803, priest 1805. Vicar of Honington, Lincs. 1805-67
Married Harriet Brooke of Low Leyton, Essex at Knaresborough, Yorkshire. Father of Henry A. Coles born 1825.
Died on 24 October 1867

Person · 1897-1965

Matriculated at Clare, 1919

Collymore was from Barbados and suffered from Tuberculosis. As a result, despite studying Law, it was decided that teaching in the country would be better for his health than working in a city so he became a teacher at Lancing College where he taught Physics and Chemistry.

Person · 1684 - c.1782

Son of John Copley of Nether Hall (admitted Fellow Commoner of Clare in 1678). Born at Nether Hall, Doncaster. Baptised 13 January 1684/85

Admitted Fellow Commoner at Clare, 19 June 1703.
2 December 1711 married Eleanor Shaw.

Died c. 1782.

Person · 1744-1823

Born 1744 in Dickleburgh, Norfolk, the son of Isaac Cowper, vicar of Eye, Suffolk

School – Bury St Edmunds

Admitted pensioner to Clare College in 1760; matriculated 1760
B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767
Fellow of Clare College 1764–73

Ordained deacon London 1754
Ordained priest 1767
Rector of Paglesham, Essex 1771-81
Recton of Rattlesden, Suffolk 1778-98
Rector of Great Barton, Suffolk 1781-1823
Rector of Billingford with Thorpe Parva, Norfolk, 1798-1823
Benefactor to the College Library

Died 1823

Person · 19 April 1878 - 7 January 1943

Born in Sheffield, the son of landscape painter James Henry Crossland and wife Mary Ann
School - Windermere Grammar

1894-1900 Student at University of London (gained BSc. in 1900)

9 July 1897 Admitted to Clare College
Matriculated Michaelmas 1897 Scholar
Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1st Class, 1899
Part II, 1st Class, 1900
B.A. 1900; M.A. 1904

1900 - 1902 Assistant to Sir Charles Eliot (British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Commissioner for East African Protectorate)

1902-1904 Assistant to Professor William Carmichael McIntosh at St Andrews University

July-Sept 1904 Collecting in the Cape Verde Islands

Oct 1904 - May 1905 Investigating fauna and flora of the Sudan Coast of the Red Sea

1905-1922 Director of the Sudan Pearl Fishery

6 Jan 1906 Married Catherine Mary Dobson

1923 Scientific research in England

1924-1926 Joined the St George expedition to the South Pacific in 1924

1927 Scientific research in England

11 June 1927 2nd marriage, to Danish national Hildur Thal-Jantzen

1928 - Returned to Tahiti, to study coral reefs

1930-38 Established and directed a marine biological station at Ghardaqa on the Red Sea Coast

1938-1943 Moved to Denmark with Hildur and their son Ingolf Crossland continuing scientific work at the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum until his death